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In August 2008 I started a separate blog, ComputerLinguist.com. At the time, I felt that it was best to keep my ASP.NET writings separate from the rest.
Dynamic languages were still heresy among many programming circles, and my articles on general programming were definitely targeted towards a different audience.

Edit (May 18, 2011): HA! Google launched the Priority Inbox, almost exactly what I was describing. Google is cool. Hmm... Did they read my blog, or was it just a coincidence? Probably a coincidence.
It's true.

Here, I'm doing it again. Linkblogging. But hey... It's too good to pass up.
How to implement several new high-profile .NET features in SmallTalk in less than a page of code.
Your Language Features Are My Libraries by Benjamin Pollack

Dozens of articles on server-side image resizing have been written. If we count other tongues, maybe hundreds. These contributions to the community have been invaluable to me, and I truly appreciate the time each author spent to share his or her knowledge.

Many people think of "performance tuning" as optimizing loops, algorithms, and memory use. In truth, however, you don't get the huge performance gains from optimizing CPU and memory use (which is good), but from eliminating I/O calls.